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Faced with an additional four years of underground transit tunnel construction in front of the San Francisco (N. Calif.) Apple store, and feeling the general crush of increased store visitors, the company will move retail operations two blocks away, into a…

Apple is making a second proposal to the city of Miami Beach (Fla.) to build an expanded store along the Lincoln Road pedestrian shopping mall, after being denied permission to demolish and rebuild in 2011. The new project is next door to the previous…

The workload of Apple retail store Genius Bars is scheduled for a huge increase later this year, after the company introduces a revamped AppleCare product that includes a longer list of iPhone, iPad and iPod problems that will repaired in-house. The changes…

After weeks of financial analyst pessimism about Apple’s product sales and a resulting plunge in its stock price, the company announced record unit sales and revenues during the second quarter of 2013, and teased new product categories in the future. The…

For reasons that aren’t obvious, Apple has restated the terms of its retail store One to One service to limit how data migration services are offered for new Macintosh purchases. The service is significant, since the company reports that over half of Mac…

One of two terrorist bombs that exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday was just one block from the Boylston Street (Mass.) Apple retail store, close enough to rattle the tall glass windows and unnerve employees. No one in the store…

As the 12th anniversary of Apple’s retail stores approaches next month, the company is significantly shifting the chain’s very foundation—its architecture. Sources say the company will no longer build street-level stores that feature an arched glass…

The final word has been issued on the long-running and troubled construction of the MacArthur Chambers (Brisbane, Australia) Apple retail store, but mystery still surrounds why Apple cancelled the project in the first place. According to tipsters, a…

Customers at Apple’s retail stores may some day be able to purchase products and immediately load them up with a customized collection of music and apps from a kiosk, all without taking the product from its retail packaging. The invention would allow someone…

The smallest Apple store in San Francisco has been scheduled for an expansion this year, more than double its square-footage in a curved space not far from the original store. The project is among about 20 stores that Apple will expand this year to manage an…

The man who briefly held the reins of Apple’s retail stores last year has admitted that he didn’t fit the company’s culture, but during an interview also said the experience had made him a “kinder” person. John Browett made the brief remarks during…

Demolition and construction is underway along a narrow street in the city of Haarlem (The Netherlands), and all the clues indicate it will be the country’s next Apple retail store. The space is along Grote Houtstraat, the city’s main shopping pedestrian…

In response to complaints by Apple retail store employees in France, a government labor agency fined the company yesterday for making its employees work past the 9 p.m. store closing hour, and warned the company that it faces stiffer penalties for future…

An upscale two-block collection of retail stores in west Berkeley (Calif.) was doing well for many years, but revenues skyrocketed just after the Fourth Street Apple retail store opened in 2011. According to a just-released economic analysis by the city, the…

A set of planning documents just submitted to Edinburgh (Scotland) city officials provides final confirmation that an Apple store will open in city center, inside an historic building where renovations are just being completed. The store at 10-15 Princes…